I had to slow down recently for about 3 weeks. By slowing down I mean almost coming to a standstill.  On paper my downtime would have looked like utopia to someone else looking in. Everyone I know is incredibly busy, often to the point of overwhelm, with careers, children, family, fitness, hobbies, and the endless[…]

I am a self-confessed technophobe. I blame it on growing up without a microwave (because the zaps would kill you). My parents still can’t reset the clock on their oven when the hour goes back and to be very honest I struggle just the same. I am the only person I know who got an[…]

I was chatting with another coach recently and she made an observation that some people feel success has to be hard won. That it has to involve enormous effort, sacrifice and compromise. That real success won’t come easily. Others feel that success is a natural right. That once they decide they want something, they go[…]

I was half watching Germany v Ghana play in the second Group G match of the World Cup, when the legendary pundit John Giles said something that caught my attention; “Forwards expect the best to happen, Backs expect the worst”.  It made me smile because some concepts are just universal. It doesn’t matter what field[…]

I’m lucky. This I’ve always appreciated. Loving family, decent education, good health, and I get to live in a country where I have so many options open to me. But there have been a few bumps in the road lately and at times I’ve thought ‘why me’ so it’s made me question if I am[…]

A well respected coach once described coaching as ‘dancing in the moment’ with the client. After my, in all honesty, initial raised eyebrow I thought more about what he meant and of course he’s 100% right. As a coach we work with the client in a fluid motion, following their agenda, reacting to their tone,[…]

Do you know what’s a risky thing to do? Allowing someone else to dictate how you feel about yourself. So many of us, without even realizing we’re doing it, look for validation from others in order to feel good. This validation or lack thereof, shapes how our day goes. We want our own mothers to[…]

She must be a wise little soul as I realized that a lot could be applied to us as coaches and/or to our clients: She feels her emotions so deeply. The other day she was crying about something and after about a minute she stopped, looked at me and said “I happy”. She doesn’t hold[…]